My big buddies

It seems like the boys are growing up at lightning speed lately. Andrew has been advancing quickly in his speech and thought processes. He cracks me up every day. He's learning to tell stories lately and it is super funny. He told me one about a dinosaur, a bear and a dragon (who morphed into a lion). It ended with, "and they all said, RAWRRR. And they were friends. The end."Play-Doh is a big hit lately. He's very careful with his creations.


This is the book his AMAZING nursery teachers from Pleasant Grove sent to him. He reads it once or twice a day, after which he usually says something like, "I live in a new house in Texas." On Sunday, he asked to go to "the white church with my Brother Lloyd." So sweet.

I love this picture because he looks SO old and mature.
So far, Henry has seemed to be a really quick learner physically. He figures out how to use his body to get what he wants, whereas Andrew for sure used his voice. Either way works. I love little Henry's energy at most hours of the day. I wish I could figure out the video function on this new camera so you could see him bouncing in his Jumparoo. The picture will have to do.
Here's our other big buddy. I only got this close because he was actually dead. Bleh. It makes my stomach CHURN just looking at him. When Justin spread out the spidey's legs, he was as big as Justin's hand. Gross.

I feel dumb.

We have ants. Billions and BILLIONS of ants. In a weak and somewhat idiotic attempt to get the guys in our backyard, I put a little ant bait/trap thingy on top of the ant mound. After I sprayed it with the hose. And guess what? That have ABSORBED IT into their new home. (Which they rebuilt really fast. I was kind of impressed.) I'm sure it is sitting over their mantle in their little ant cave and they are just laughing at me, thinking I could get them with one puny trap. AND, I have fireant stings/bites all over my hands and legs from the boogers living in my pantry. Yep, you read that right. MY PANTRY.

But I have a message for you, little fellas. I do not give up easily. And I have a LOT of money for ant killing tactics. You will pay for this. Consider that a threat.

I need them.

Just found the new favorite shoe website for me, Justy, and kiddos...

sanuk.com

You should go look.

To my honey

Happy anniversary to the best husband, daddy and bug/small animal killer that ever lived on this earth...
*Hey, I have an idea...How about you do accounting all day to celebrate. Then we'll have the missionaries over to top off the best anniversary of your life. :)

What are kolaches? Anyone?

I think this is a good depiction of our lives until two days ago when Justin started school...Basically, we would go to the gym, Andrew would hang out in his undies most of the day, and we would run errands during naptime. That's it. Really.

I love that Andrew has some of my traits...Except I don't eat and spit out lemon peels.

This was pre-furniture...Oh my. It was so not awesome trying to feed Henry without a high chair.
We aren't very good at catching our frogs.

But I'm really good at getting awesome action shots.

Andrew is taking swimming lessons. I can get him to do anything in the pool if I tell him to do it "like a shark."Henry is sleeping through the night. Halle-freaking-lujah.

Henry sticks his tongue out when he's concentrating. But not very far, because even though it got snipped, it's still kind of attached.

Henry is still obsessed with doorstops.

He came crawling into my room yesterday with this in his hand. Before I had kids, I didn't even know that these were removable.

Summary: We love Texas.